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Around Town
I haven’t taken the dslr out for a spin since I got back to the United States, but I do carry a good camera everywhere I go, in the form of my phone. I snap pictures all the time, at all kinds of...
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I’m having trouble maintaining an election.
I wrote last year about election time in Germany, and one of the aspects which fascinated me the most was the incredible variety of poltical parties in the race. In the US, there’s a wide variety of...
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Tacos! (Or maybe not so much.)
I’ve been trying all weekend to come up with a new tagline for this blog, since I’m no longer on the Donau, and virtually every tag I’ve come up with so far has involved tacos in some way. Tomorrow...
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All I need is a pith helmet.
The more time I spend in South Florida, the more I feel like Uncle Travelling Matt. So much of life here is just a little bit alien to me now. Take this, for example- the weird flavors that are...
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Go to the wood!
As we enter into the holiday season, the movie studios begin to ramp up their pitches to have the most popular movie of the holiday season. There are endless commercials already for the newest...
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`Twas The Weekend Before Thanksgiving…
The weekend before Thanksgiving was a most eventful one for me. I spent most of the day on Saturday at the car dealership with my brother, going through the motions of the dance that is car...
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What You Own
On the rainy Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I spent a long chunk of time in the parking lot of a storage facility. I was waiting for the delivery of my stuff from Germany. I shipped eleven boxes of...
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[Stone Cold Brunchin’] – Bat-breakfast At Waffleworks
Of all the meals, brunch is my favorite. I never want to wake up early enough for a proper breakfast, and lunch is usually stuck in the middle of doing other things. Brunch is a graceful compromise,...
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The Holiday Fantasy of Lights at Tradewind Park
I’m being a very bad blogger, because I haven’t actually had much downtime to write a regular post lately. I also don’t have many ideas for what to write about, but I’m still working on that. I do...
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Auf Wiedersehen, 2014.
2014 was a hell of a year. It was the last third of my time in Germany before my contract ended there. In 2014, I visited old favorite cities and the friends that resided in each- Munich, Nuremberg,...
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Blank Canvas
Hello, old bloggy friend. I’m sorry I’ve been away for so long. I thought I would be able to maintain my previous rate of bloggery, but then things just went sort of sideways. January was kind of...
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Vaping, Flavored Water, and Too Much Damn Choice
It’s been just over five months since I moved back to the US, and the wonderful Itchy Feet comic above is spot on. I feel like I’m mostly re-acculturated, but there are still things that take me...
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Drinking Soylent
I’ve been drinking Soylent for a few months now, and I’ve been meaning to write about it because many of my friends have expressed curiosity about it. After the breakfast talk in last week’s post, I...
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A rare post about my job.
I don’t usually talk about my job online for a bunch of different reasons. For one thing, I deal with confidential data. For another, I think that “what do you do?” is the least interesting question...
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First Time In A Trader Joe’s
I went to Trader Joe’s today for the first time ever. I’ve heard people raving about this store for years, but the big expansions into South Florida didn’t’ take place until I was already in Germany....
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Megacon 2015, in Orlando, FL
In the second weekend of April, Amelie and I headed to Orlando to attend Megacon, the third largest sci-fi/television/gaming/anime convention in the United States. I’ve been to many Megacons over the...
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The 2015 Television Upfronts
Every May, the five main American broadcast television networks get together at a big party called the Upfronts to show their new fall shows to advertisers. This is when we, the viewers, get our first...
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Away from keyboard…
I’m sorry that I’ve been away again. I have a bunch of posts from my short trip to Minneapolis that I need to finish up. There’s also this: Yup, I’m in Japan! I’ve been here for two weeks, and I have...
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Home, Soon.
I’m in my fifth week in Tokyo, my final week. This week will be fun. Fun thing #1: I get to see some old friends from Germany. Tuesday is dinner with Tuuli and Henri, friends from Regensburg, who moved...
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May your wheels never break.
Goodbye, Big Red, your time in my life is at an end. I purchased Big Red when I was about to move to Germany, and I knew that I would have to live out of a suitcase for a month or more while the rest...
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